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Serena Sews: How to Make Beautiful, Interchangeable, Sustainable and Unique Clothes

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Sew You Can encourages its pupils to follow ‘indie’ patterns from British designers, manufactured in small batches by UK companies. Busy professionals, including doctors and lawyers, are now finding release from their daily stresses and strains in the unlikely guise of a former Lanarkshire primary school teacher, who administers her therapy through the medicinal qualities of tossed-out curtains and discarded men’s shirts.

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It’s a creative outlet – ‘me’ time, out of the house. Most people are not in creative jobs, so this is their opportunity to be creative. Refashion' existing items like an oversized shirt into a summer dress, or an old pair of jeans into a cute crop top Determined to reverse the propensity for ‘fast fashion’ – the blindingly fast pace at which clothes are now manufactured, worn, and discarded – Amanda hooked up with R:evolve Recycle’s eco haberdashery in Hamilton, whose staff and volunteers offered to donate materials which helped her to launch an upcycling class. Master must-have skills - from zip insertion to pressing perfection - to boost your sewing confidence and give your garments a professional finishForget fast fashion and cheap trends - Serena Baker is here to help you craft the sustainable wardrobe of your dreams!In 2021, Serena Baker became the youngest ever - and first Scottish - winner of The Great British Sewing Bee. Sustainable sewing is a big focus of Serena Sews, which I’ve been busy writing since my Sewing Bee win last year. Forget fast fashion and cheap trends – Serena Baker is here to help you craft the sustainable wardrobe of your dreams!” Forget fast fashion and cheap trends - Serena Baker is here to help you craft the sustainable wardrobe of your dreams! There, doyennes of fashion, Amanda and Serena – wearing a flattering skirt fashioned from a pair of curtains and a funky crop-top adapted from a man’s shirt – explained to eight students how to recreate show-stopping designs, worthy of Parisienne catwalks, from discarded clothes and surplus fabrics.

A Great British Sewing Bee win, now for patching up people

The paths of Sew You Can and R:evolve Recycle crossed again recently, when Amanda teamed up with young Glasgow medical student Serena Baker, whose exceptional sewing and design talents, and her passion for upcycling, earned her the Great British Sewing Bee crown of 2021. People would say to me: ‘I’d pay you to make that for my own wee girl.’ But that did not bring me joy.

Formerly occupied by a water cooler company, the premises had lain empty for two years. But creative Amanda recognised the potential of the staid, corporate space with its banks of blank admin desks. It doesn’t matter if you have never sewn before, or if you haven’t done so for a long time,” reassured Amanda, whose students come from Cumbernauld, Airdrie and Coatbridge, Motherwell and Wishaw, Hamilton and East Kilbride – as well as from as far afield as Cumbria, the Isle of Bute, Peebles and Edinburgh. People have come here, made items of clothing and gone on to wear them on holiday and to weddings, and they’ve made clothing for their kids,” said Amanda, who gets great satisfaction from the rewards her students reap from their new-found love of sewing. refashion' existing items like an oversized shirt into a summer dress, or an old pair of jeans into a cute crop top

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Following her success on the show, Serena has now produced a book that takes readers on a journey to reinvent their wardrobes, which she will also be promoting on her Dundee visit.

In 2021, Serena Baker became the youngest ever - and first Scottish - winner of The Great British Sewing Bee. She thrilled the judges with her incredible attention to detail and wowed viewers with her distinctive 'refashioning projects', putting sustainability at the heart of her creations. When people come, in, they always have a story,” said Amanda, mum to Grace, 11, and nine-year-old Ella. Venturing beyond the comfort zone of designing kids’ clothing – a line which frees creators of the measuring and fitting complications “boobs and bums” present – Amanda’s dazzling creations for women became increasingly adventurous, more dramatic. Eloise is an enthusiastic participant of the kids’ classes, which have also been attended by a young boy who made puppets by hand, and wanted to up-skill to machine stitching.

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